Word: boosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just in time to brighten the holiday season, Canadian servicemen got their first pay raise in two years, an average 9% boost that will make Canada's lowliest enlisted men and its top brass the highest-priced fighting men of their rank in the world. Base pay for the Canadian recruit will jump from $87 to $92 a month. The U.S. buck private draws only...
...perceptible slump in many fall and winter lines." Montgomery Ward's sales were down 15.5%. In New York, where a six-day, eye-burning "smaze"* added to the buying apathy, the fur business was down 20%; oil companies cut prices of heating oils by ½? a gallon to boost lagging sales. Anthracite men noted sadly that their sales so far this year were down by about...
SLUM housing may get a boost next year from the $26 billion savings and loan business. The U.S. Savings and Loan League, comprised of 4,100 state and federally chartered savings associations and cooperative banks, wants Congress to pass a law authorizing federally chartered institutions to buy cleared slum land, put up low-cost housing...
...said he. "My car insurance came due. That's $120. The taxes on my house came due. That's $140. I've got a boy in junior high, and he was yelling for gym clothes." When Gramm went back, North American gave him its offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked for an average hourly increase of 26?, plus other benefits), jumping his hourly wage to $1.97. Said Gramm: "That's as much as anybody in this area is making. Maybe it ain't like...
...Council, tentatively organized a year ago, received a legal boost last week when federal courts decided through test cases that such contributions were legal...